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	abstinence
fady	abstinence, fasting, prohibition; unlawfulness, incest; anything tabooed. It often takes an accusative case, as: fady ahy izany. Faly is used in the provinces. [comp. Swa. fali, an omen.] [Richardson 1885]
faratra	abstinence prescribed by a doctor to convalescents; a preventive; regimen, as not to eat beef, not to go in the sun, etc. See [Richardson 1885]

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